Unified Communications Contracts in Somerset

Unified Communications
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset requiring Unified Communications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unified Communications over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.52% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £616 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 - -
75th Percentile £649 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £625 £763 £550
% change year-on-year -18.03% +38.64% +2.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

Unified Communications falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 40 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 14.47% 18.26% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 30
10th Percentile £225 £238 £155
25th Percentile £363 £250 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £295 £388
Median % change year-on-year +77.97% -23.87% -3.13%
75th Percentile £625 £511 £450
90th Percentile £649 £613 £516
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 4
10th Percentile - £12.50 £16.93
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.94
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year - -7.34% -1.77%
75th Percentile - - £75.88
90th Percentile - - £84.35
South West median hourly rate £41.40 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +3.49% +308.16% -80.70%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Job postings citing Unified Communications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in Somerset

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in Somerset.

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in Somerset

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unified Communications within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 2 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bath - 4 £633 - 5
Unified Communications
South West

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) IPsec
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Switch Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 4 (100.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) NsoIT
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) VMware